3/25/19-Business Report “There is an incongruence between people’s expectations of cameras, police expectations of cameras and what they think they’re being used for” Cynthia Lum, CJRA Expert.
3/25/19-Business Report “There is an incongruence between people’s expectations of cameras, police expectations of cameras and what they think they’re being used for” Cynthia Lum, CJRA Expert.
3/25/19-Governing “There is an incongruence between people’s expectations of cameras, police expectations of cameras and what they think they’re being used for,” Cynthia Lum, CJRA Expert.
3/25/19- EurekAlert “Expectations and concerns surrounding body-worn cameras among police leaders and citizens have not yet been realized by and large in the ways anticipated by each,” Cynthia Lum, CJRA Expert.
Police use of body-worn cameras is growing rapidly in the United States. New research that looked at 70 studies of body-worn cameras concludes that while officers and citizens generally support using the cameras, the devices may not have had significant or consistent effects on most measures of behavior by officers or citizens, or on citizens’ […]
3/23/19- The Tennessean “I think juvenile justice statistics have a long way to go. You could protect confidentiality and the kids’ names, but we should know a lot more,” Simon Singer, CJRA Expert.
3/4/19- Atlanta Journal Constitution “The rates of those re-offending are similar if they’re on GPS tracking or not,” Jason Rydberg, CJRA Expert.
Read the February 2019 newsletter here.
2/24/19 – USA Today “Unlike most crimes which involve the buying and selling of a consumable product … human trafficking entails the buying and selling of human beings, and they’re exploited over and over again,” – Jay Albanese, CJRA Expert.
2/20/19- CU Denver Today “We found that neighborhoods with one or more medical or recreational dispensary saw increased crime rates that were between 26 and 1,452 percent higher than in neighborhoods without any commercial marijuana activity,” Lorine Hughes, CJRA Expert.
Ten states and the District of Columbia now allow the sale, possession, and use of marijuana for recreational purposes, and 33 states and the District of Columbia allow medical marijuana. Critics argue that marijuana dispensaries are magnets for crime. A new study found an association between marijuana dispensaries and increases in rates of crime and […]